Plan B for love

Movie
German title	Plan B for love
Original title	The back-up plan
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2010
length	106 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 JMK 10
Rod
Director	Alan Poul
script	Kate Angelo
production	Jason Blumenthal , Todd Black , Steve Tisch
music	Stephen Trask
camera	Xavier Pérez Grobet
cut	Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
occupation
Jennifer Lopez : Zoe Alex O'Loughlin : Stan Michaela Watkins : Mona Eric Christian Olsen : Clive Anthony Anderson : Father in the playground Noureen DeWulf : Daphne Melissa McCarthy : Carol Tom Bosley : Arthur Maribeth Monroe : Lori Danneel Ackles : Olivia Linda Lavin : Nana Robert Klein : Dr. Harris Adam Rose : Louie Carlease Burke : Tabitha Jennifer Elise Cox : Saleswoman in the baby store

Plan B for Love is a 2010 American comedy starring Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin . Germany started on May 15, 2010.

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New Yorker Zoe is pretty and successful. She believes children and a man her age are overdue, but she is sure that the latter will always be denied. So she decides to do artificial insemination. Immediately after the procedure, she faces the perfect man named Stan.

During the next few weeks, Zoe is all about keeping the pregnancy a secret from Stan, which of course fails. But Stan stands by Zoe and her twins and supports them over the next few months. However, the relationship between the two of them between Zoe's hormonal chaos and the birth preparations falls by the wayside, and shortly before the babies are born, the two discover that they don't know much about each other.

After the babies are born, Stan opens his long-awaited store and at the opening makes Zoe a marriage proposal, which she accepts. In the final scene, she throws up and it becomes clear that she is pregnant again.

Movie review

• Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun Times : “Some movies are no better than second rate sitcoms. Other films are no better than third rate sitcoms. 'Plan B for Love' cannot be compared to sitcoms. It's like an unbearable TV movie about beautiful people with great lifestyles and not a good idea in their empty minds. "
• Carmen Böker, journalist for the Berliner Zeitung , is completely disappointed: “You argue a little, have dates in picturesque places that also meet the requirements of an upscale living magazine. Everything could be so simple if Zoe hadn't gotten pregnant straight away, overriding the sequence 'In love - engaged - married - pregnant'. An interesting conflict in which Alex O'Loughlin shows his partner Jennifer Lopez in no way equal. "

“Jennifer Lopez is pregnant. That sucks especially for the audience […] 'Plan B for Love' offers unpleasant scenes in abundance. We can only guess what Plan A would have looked like, but it would certainly have been a better alternative. Conclusion: A film to make others ashamed of - even sweet Jennifer Lopez can't save anything. "

- Cinema

"A low-tension, long-winded romantic comedy with a moderate humorous quality, the handling of gender clichés at most ostensibly breaks old role models."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The Back-up Plan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website
• Reviews of Plan B for Love at Moviepilot

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of Release for Plan B for Love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 688 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for Plan B for love . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ Carmen Böker: Pony hairstyle wishes insemination . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 12, 2010.
4. ↑ Cinema.de
5. ↑ Plan B for love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .